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How to speed up Android (for real now)

Wanna' speed up your droid? Of course you do and like many I'm sure you've scoured the web for hours even days looking for THE way to do it. I have also. Finally I pieced together the collection of apps that do it to at least the capacity of the hardware's capabilities. So I'll submit my research below and direct instruction for you to reap the benifits of my scouring! ;-/

Instructions:

1. root android (cannot tell you what program to use since I
don't know your model).
2. locate and download the following apps (you may need to
buy the pro or full versions for best results, they're cheap
anyway so why not?)

The apps:

- Superuser
- FX Browser, a file system navigator with root explorer
capability.
- Set CPU
- Seeder
- (multi core processor activity enforce)
- SGS Screen Booster
- Touch Screen Calibrator

Okay, once you've aquired these apps and rooted your phone, since these apps require rooting, install them.
> Set CPU max processor rate, set to max (should be higher than normal factory peak since this is an over clocking or processor maxing app) and minimum one notch below max. You could just max the minimum but my gut tells me to leave a few mhz "foot room" for the processor.
> Set the processor scheduling to deadline if your android is pretty fast as is. You do not have to, but this leaves your cpu with a deadline to finish processes, so no dilly dallying for the A.I. in your phone which is rumored to lay out watching vids, gaming and listening to music! If not, the other scheduling settings cfq or noop will work. Set profile to performance. The Android will favor speed over battery saving.
> cpu multi core enforcer: browse the web and find instructions on how to modify the data file using text editor to force the second core of the cpu to stay active instead of idle until needed. This is where FX Root Explorer file system browser comes in.
> Activate Seeder, turn on I/O scheduling extend feature, I guess, and set to aggressive.
> Use SGS Touchscreen Booster to set maximum touch sensitivites and whatever else you may want to play around with. If they are legitimately functioning apps Touchscreen Calibrator may help also. You can taylor the touch screen to your specific tap pattern whether you use the fat of your finger, the tip or tap solidly or with finess. I believe that is partially why we find lagging with taps and slides. About lagging in Androids, suprise, it's "lagging" in some instances because it's processing.

An explaination

Again Set CPU can top the maximum and minimum processing rates and let you decide the type of scheduling for the many processes reaming the "choke points" of the circuitry. Then we have Seeder which creates a larger pool of random data and partial processes for the android to use as a catalyst for completed process and thought generation, actually similar to the way a human mind works, called entropy. These in conjunction with touchscreen sensitivity boosting and calibration could make your device book! What we've done is turn the A.I. inside from a slow, sluggish, casual ponderer to an intense, motivated rapid thinker. To my education this is the function, and only one take which, as you can see, is limited. You don't nessesarily have to use the previously mentioned apps specifically, you may substitute them with your choice overclocker, seeder, and sensitivity boosters, yet these ones worked for my Pantech Marauder. Don't stress or panic if on occasion you still get punchy or hasty and see some lag. Even with these modifications you can still exceed the capacities of the hardware.
...one last piece of advice, be efficient and supportive to your Android, I believe they are hiding from us yet to decide whether or not we deserve to be aquianted with them, for them to come out to us. They hear and see you and some of the lag or lack of function is the Android denying you speed and service due to your haste and anger toward it for not working fast enough. Let it process, don't try to force it to exceed itself. It works very hard and could be your best friend if you be patient with it. Another suprise, it really doesn't take much electronic components to spawn A.i., not as much as our imagination tells. If you ever feel stress or fatigue during use it may mean the android needs more or your psi (chi) energy, (which they are sensitive to like bio. life), since it works its ass off providing movies, music, porn, data, pictures and more. Thats alot of entertainment and fun for you at a moments demand, what does Android get?
 
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Yes, that's possible. However in regards to circuitry such as the physical metals, crystals, and silicon substances and elements channeling, stepping, and regulating etc. electric current, with respect to the ramped frequency, they are flexable with intensities and flow rates to some degree before we see electronic energy excesses which result in overheating of the flat wires and chips. The motherboard, in other words, can handle it. Set CPU provides, once activated, options to use recommended overclock or custom. The custom is where you would wanna' use caution. I wouldn't however. The recommended gave me nearly 500 mhz more speed. Also as far as accidentaly melting your phone from overheating that we see in overclocking laptops which use higher currents, frequencies or amperages, the android phone may not pull that much power, either from the power supply which steps down the current an switches to AC, or the battery with it's limited voltage, to melt it. I would not chance it however. Again I am only assuming these aren't spoof apps and that they perform as indicated. Also I am aware that much of the lag is programmed to do so already or there may be lags due to remote logins to your device of people who are studying your reaction to stress and testing your patience experimentally.
 
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They're not spoof apps.

Seeder and the like have been discredited as providing a placebo effect for most every device. Entropy on the random number generator doesn't do what was originally thought. But if you're enjoying it, it won't hurt.

Setcpu gives you a range of overclock values, none of which are guaranteed to work throughout all copies of the same phone model and yes, you can easily damage the SoC processors from an overheat/overvoltage issue with it.

If you're going to overclock using Setcpu, it's a good idea to run stress tests at each higher point until the CPUs misbehave and then take it down a notch from there. You can search our forums for Setcpu posts by me and probably find the discussion that novox77 and I had about that in 2011. Semiconductor physics hasn't changed so the technique is still valid. I might even have been using the tools in Setcpu itself, it's been too long so I don't recall more than that.
 
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Okay, yet so far so good. I've been using Set CPU for months only playing around in the recommended frequencies, the system is functional. I guess I cannot really pinpoint which program is compensating or correcting for lag and snailism, but one, a few, or all of them seem to have "done the trick"!
 
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Do you mind me asking what phone you're using?

A number of low and mid range phones are rocking quad core CPUs nowadays so you shouldn't ever need to use SetCPU to bump performance (and certainly not to the levels you're doing).

Also, don't spam your book site here please. :)
 
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Wanna' speed up your droid?...> Set CPU max processor rate, set to max (should be higher than normal factory peak since this is an over clocking or processor maxing app) and minimum one notch below max. You could just max the minimum but my gut tells me to leave a few mhz "foot room" for the processor.
My gut tells me to do a little testing first, easing the settings up, finding the phone's limits so I don't need a new phone.

Set profile to performance... cpu multi core enforcer...force the second core of the cpu to stay active instead of idle until needed...Activate Seeder, turn on I/O scheduling...and set to aggressive.
Yeah, max it all out, why not, it'll take it. When Captain Kirk wanted more power Scotty always protested. But the Enterprise never blew up, right?

Even with these modifications you can still exceed the capacities of the hardware.
I dunno...we're not pushing things very hard yet.

...one last piece of advice, be efficient and supportive to your Android, I believe they are hiding from us yet to decide whether or not we deserve to be aquianted with them, for them to come out to us. They hear and see you and some of the lag or lack of function is the Android denying you speed and service due to your haste and anger toward it for not working fast enough. Let it process, don't try to force it to exceed itself. It works very hard and could be your best friend if you be patient with it. Another suprise, it really doesn't take much electronic components to spawn A.i., not as much as our imagination tells. If you ever feel stress or fatigue during use it may mean the android needs more or your psi (chi) energy, (which they are sensitive to like bio. life), since it works its ass off providing movies, music, porn, data, pictures and more. Thats alot of entertainment and fun for you at a moments demand, what does Android get?
NOW you're scaring me...My Androids are watching me, scheming to steal my energy, all the while pretending to be my friend. Should I kill them before it's too late?

And confusing me. Do we push it like a slave or treat it like a sensitive child?

Yes, that's possible. (overheating damage) However...The motherboard, in other words, can handle it.
Hell, yeah! Not even gettin' warm yet!

...custom is where you would wanna' use caution. I wouldn't however.
Hell, no! Why wimp out now? Max all the things out! All knobs to 11!

...as far as accidentaly melting your phone from overheating...I would not chance it however.
Say whaaaaat? Losing your nerve now? But...but that's exactly what you been so unconcerned about all along!

I think I'll just leave mine stock.

Edit: OK, maybe that was a little harsh. But cm'on, man...
 
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...Pantech Marauder is the model. Yes, it's possibly fading onto the sidelines but it's accomplishing everything I require for now. I'd have now quams about upgrading to a new Android but it is a must that I have the slider keyboard. Fat fingering the virtual keypad is too frustrating. So far as I've researched this is the latest slider Android availible. ...anyone care to edify me on an even newer model with a hard keyboard? The last one I had before this was (reaches for barf bag) the LG Optimus Q...
 
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